About Lauren Banko

Lauren
E. Banko is a Ph.D. candidate and senior teaching fellow at the University of
London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the Department of
History. Her research focuses on the Arab Middle East and specifically on
Palestine and the creation of citizenship and nationality, and popular politics
under the British Mandate.

Constitutional conventions: best practice

In the current climate of political fragmentation and
the expired mandates of the executive and legislative branches of the Palestinian
Authority, the rights and the duties of the citizens and the government should
not continue to be swept aside.

An
internationally-recognised citizenship of the Arab Middle East designed during the era of mandates by the British came out of exclusively
colonial processes, despite the fact that the British were meant to be
an international trustee in Palestine.
This article explores what happened.